Three years in the making, the new app dares to rethink how people have worked with words on screens for decades. FiftyThree could have launched its new iPhone app three years ago and quickly amassed ...

So wait, why paper, again? “Our teammates design apps every day, and we’ve tried most of the prototyping solutions out there, but they all seemed too complicated for us,” says Leo Lin, a designer at ...

FiftyThree, the startup behind the wildly popular drawing app Paper, has closed a Series A round of financing led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Highline Ventures, Thrive Capital, SV ...

Mike Matas was sitting on an L-shaped couch inside one of the largest offices at Facebook, holding an iPhone that plugged into a Mac laptop through a long, black cord. It was the early afternoon, and ...

Georg Petschnigg throws his hands into the air as he traces the ages of human evolution that led us to develop the fragile wrists we need to use tools. Petschnigg locks his wrist into place and ...

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Last Thursday, Facebook announced that it was about to release an iPhone app called Paper. The app is now available from Apple’s App Store. If you use Facebook on an iPhone, you really need to try it.

Whether you are developing a disruptively innovative product or a uniquely repurposed solution, and no matter how clear your idea and vision seem on paper, designing as simple as a paper prototype is ...

The excerpt below is from the book “Gamify Your Classroom: A Field Guide to Game-Based Learning,” by Matthew Farber. This excerpt is from the chapter entitled “Iterative Design.” Tracy Fullerton, ...

Mark Zuckerberg has finally done it. After a long succession of mobile mishaps, he has delivered the portable Facebook app I’ve always wanted… and there’s hardly any evidence that Paper is a Facebook ...

Facebook Paper could have given publishers the reach they lost yesterday in the News Feed, but no one wanted the standalone news reading app. Facebook has pulled the Paper app from the app store and ...